o Technical audit of an Exchange 2013 virtualized multi server role platform (on premise)
o Office 365 migration from OVH Exchange using the BitTitan migration solution (70 users)
o Office 365 tenant to tenant migration using BitTitan (200+ users)
Running an IT Service business, Microsoft Small Business Specialist Reseller to serve the SME (Small and Medium Enterprise) market.
Hardware, software and services sales to Small and Mid Sized Business Clients.
This activity requires multiple skills, from sales, accounting, delivering services (installation, training and maintenance). By limiting the scope of the offering to SME products and solutions, I was able to maintain a good level of technical expertise while doing the non-technical work (sales, business administration).
In an IT consultant role expert in Microsoft SNA Server, and following a previously successful project, I was tasked to deliver a complex migration project involving critical IBM mainframe applications accessed from PC desktops. Deliverables included:
Technical Solution Design
Managing the deployment and coordination across users at the bank.
Delivered technical support, training and relevant project documentation.
As an IT Consultant, I was in charge of a project to fix and upgrade Microsoft SNA Server upgrade project to provide IBM/SNA devices emulation (terminal, printer and data transfers) for Windows desktop clients.
Designed an improved technical solution using load balancing, redundancy and disaster recovery.
Managed the deployment of the solution across users in the bank.
Delivered expertise transfer to the customer support engineers
Deployment of a network supervision platform for LAN and WAN components on a countrywide WAN network. Development of support procedures. Solution based on NetView/6000 running on IBM/AIX.
CDD then Freelance IT contractor in a role to provide Third Level technical support for a DEC/COMPAQ global customer (Ciba Specialty Chemicals). Technology supported: Microsoft SNA Servers providing connectivity to IBM AS/400s and Mainframe.
Joint business venture (myself, DEC and a Bank) to develop an intelligent network device to provide environmental alarming (power failures, temperature, humidity, intrusion, etc.) to the central Network Operations Centre in Sophia.
Employee as a Support Engineer at the Digital European Technical Support, specialist on DECnet IBM/SNA Gateways, VAX/VMS and DECnet/SNA Interconnect products.
Support, Pre-sales Consultancy and Teaching for Digital Education Services.
• Previous career data available on request
RECENT TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS:
MS 181 - Dynamics 365 CRM Customization and Configuration
MCP exams 70-282 & 70-653 (Designing, Deploying, and Managing a Network Solution for a Small and Medium-Sized Business) required obtaining the Microsoft Small Business Specialist label.
MCP Microsoft SNA Server.
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